LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,109)
  • Text Authors (19,485)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Gabriello Chiabrera (1552 - 1638)

Oh rosetta che rosetta
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Oh rosetta che rosetta
tra'l bel verde di tue frondi
vergognosa ti nascondi
come pura donzelletta
che sposata ancor non è.

Se dal bel cespo natio
ti torrò non te ne caglia
ma con te tanto mi vaglia
che ne lodi il pensier mio
se servigio ha sua mercé.

Caro pregio il tuo colore
tra le man sia di colei
che governa i pensier miei
che mi mira il petto e'I core
ma non mira la mìa fé'.

Non mi dir come t'apprezza
la beltà di Citerea,
io me 'I so, ma questa Dea
e di gratia e di bellezza
non ha Dea sembiante a se.

Text Authorship:

  • by Gabriello Chiabrera (1552 - 1638) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Oh rosetta che rosetta", published 1607 [vocal trio], from Scherzi Musicali a tre voci, no. 8. [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-09-05
Line count: 20
Word count: 106

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris